Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 Having become a major player in the gaming laptop world and the Chromebook market, Asus is setting its sights on what’s being called the digital creatives space — graphic designers, animators, game developers and the like. They require performance power like gamers, but don’t necessarily desire the neon-flavored designs of gaming […]
Asus Chromebook Detachable CM3 While Acer was going big with its new Chromebook announcement this week, Asus is staying flexible with its launch of a pair of Chromebooks that look to capture a piece of the 2-in-1 segment of the growing laptop market. We had a first inkling of the new hybrid devices back […]
Asus VivoBook M515UA When AMD rolled out the Ryzen 7 5000 series of mobile processors at this year’s CES, the big story was the adoption of the high-performance chips in some gaming laptops, a market that Intel has long dominated. Less heralded were the lower-power chips that were also part of the launch, including a […]
Acer Chromebook Spin 513 First announced last fall, the Acer Chromebook Spin 513 — notable for being the first Chromebook that features a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor — has finally arrived, with Walmart’s online store offering the base configuration at a $349 price for shipment later this week. The 513 is the latest in Acer’s successful […]
Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable Microsoft’s success with the Surface line of hybrid laptops is pushing competitors to step up their 2-in-1 notebook game. In particular, the enterprise-friendly Surface Pro 7+ seems to have struck a nerve with rivals, as Lenovo’s recent release of the ThinkPad X12 Detachable — its first detachable ThinkPad in years — […]
Tablets designed to run the Chrome operating systems have had a rocky road, especially compared to the runaway success of Chromebook laptops. Like Chromebox desktops, Chromebook tablets are few and far between, with occasional big splashes only to fade away as they fail to connect with the market. One of those splashes came last year […]
Following in the footsteps of Lenovo, rival HP has seen its Black Friday ad leaked this week (though both come weeks after the plans of competitor Dell were announced). Whereas many retailers have advertised deals throughout Nov., HP’s sale is in the time frame that we had come to expect for Black Friday discounts: starting on Thanksgiving […]
TCL Tab 8 You might recognize the TCL brand from its value-priced Roku TVs sold through Amazon, Best Buy and the like, but it’s been a player in the mobile space through its manufacturing of phones for the likes of Alcatel and BlackBerry. In 2020, the Chinese company has moved to release Android phones under […]
Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 With Intel launching its latest batch of mobile processors — the 11th-generation Tiger Lake family — system makers are starting to announce new and updated laptops (even Chromebooks) that will take advantage to the performance boost and improved Iris Xe integrated graphics. Today Dell joins the roll-out with a refresh of […]
The COVID-19 pandemic — and the ensuing lock-down throughout the world — has brought back a lot of things that had fallen a bit out of favor, like jigsaw puzzle family nights and drive-in movies. It’s also given surprising new life to the tablet PC market, which cratered several years ago, but has come back […]